About Reciprocal Teaching In reciprocal teaching, students and teachers talk to one another about the meaning of text, taking turns leading the dialogue The dialogue is struc tured to incorporate four strategies: generating questions about the con tent, summarizing the content, clarify ing points, and predicting upcoming content from cues in the text or from prior knowledge of the topic (see bo...

Curriculum development and empirical research in the field of second language acquisition could benefit critical pedagogy (CLP) its practitioners. This article reviews central concepts organization curriculum CLP compares them with another major curricular initiative teaching, namely task-based or task-supported approaches, particular emphasis on teaching. Content itself (as activities material...

Responsive Teaching is an early intervention curriculum designed to address the cognitive, language, and social emotional needs of young children with developmental problems. This innovative intervention model was derived from research conducted primarily with children with Down syndrome and their mothers. Results from these studies indicated that during the early childhood years, parents promo...

The emergence of commercial wireless devices based on ultra-wideband radio technology (UWB-RT) is widely awaited and anticipated. UWB-RT is not only applicable to communications, imaging and ranging, it also promises to alleviate the problem of increasingly scarce spectrum resources while enabling new wireless applications and business opportunities. These prospects have caught the early attent...

In an RT experiment, subjects were asked to respond with minimal responses to prerecorded dialogs and a manipulated version of these dialogs that contained only intonation and pause information. Response delays and, especially, variances were higher to the impoverished, intonation only, stimuli than to the original recordings. It was also found that intonation only utterances ending in a mid-fr...